The Business TimesRPT-Edible oil traders use free-trade pact to get around India's import tax hikeReuters(Repeats story from Aug. 3 for wider readership with no change to text). By Rajendra Jadhav and Emily Chow. MUMBAI/KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 3 (Reuters) - …
Liberia's biggest palm oil project quits eco-certification schemeReutersMONROVIA, July 21 (Reuters) - Liberia's largest palm oil company, Golden Veroleum, has quit a global eco-certification scheme in response to accusations from a global watchdog …
ReutersEmployee Abductions Cut Libya's Oil Production By 160000 BpdOilPrice.comJust a few days after Libya reopened its eastern oil ports and started to ramp up production that had been offline for weeks, production at one of the country's largest …
ReutersPalm oil sustainability group reinstates Nestle membershipReutersKUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Nestle's (NESN.S) membership in the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) has been reinstated three weeks after it was suspended, according to a joint …
EURACTIVUPDATE 1-Indonesia, Malaysia condemn European move to limit palm oil useReutersKUALA LUMPUR, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Top palm oil producers Indonesia and Malaysia on Thursday criticised the European Union for backing a ban on the use of palm oil in biof …
BBC NewsBraer: The huge oil spill that Shetland survivedBBC NewsTwenty five years ago the Braer oil tanker ran aground off the Shetland Isles in hurricane-force winds, spilling almost 85,000 tonnes of crude oil. The captain and crew of the vessel were airl …
The Star OnlineUPDATE 1-Malaysia to suspend export tax on palm oil for 3 monthsReutersThe export tax suspension will be lifted before the three-month period if crude palm oil stocks fall to 1.6 million tonnes, Malaysia's minister of plantation industri …
The Star OnlineUPDATE 2-Demand for Malaysian palm oil set to rise following export tax suspensionReuters“We are going to see buying coming in from China ahead of the Lunar New Year. India will also restock in the first and second quarter of the year as the …
Palm oil giant vows to reform after Indonesian child labor probeReutersKUALA LUMPUR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The world's biggest palm oil processor Wilmar has launched fresh measures to improve conditions of thousands of children living on its pl …
ReutersUnder EU attack, top palm oil producers rethink trade strategyReutersJAKARTA/KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Facing a backlash in Europe over palm oil's environmental toll, the world's top producers are scrambling to find new markets and even strik …